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Chhimi Tenduf-La was anxious about dengue even before the current epidemic in Sri Lanka reached its height this June. With 80,000 cases so far, and hospital wards overflowing, he felt his heart sink when his paediatrician reported they were turning away children simply for a lack of beds. Tenduf-La's concern is overwhelmingly for his kids. … Continue reading
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In Sri Lanka, Muslim women are fighting back against unfair marriage laws
Since 2014, Hasanah Cegu Isadeen has met with and interviewed some 700 Sri Lankan Muslim women. A lawyer, independent researcher and activist, Cegu is haunted by the stories she has heard. She has met women who were married as young as 12 and forced into sex by their adult partners before they had even attained … Continue reading
Nayomi Munaweera: 'I couldn't have written those hard scenes if I'd had a natural child in my life'
Though she had been to many book clubs since the publication of her novel What Lies Between Us, Nayomi Munaweera found her heart sinking when faced with the newest group. Sitting around in a circle, waiting to discuss her novel were nearly 50 women, all mothers with children who attended the local elementary school. She … Continue reading
Shehan Karunatilaka: What to expect from Shehan 'Chinaman' Karunatilaka's new novel (hint: think ghosts)
The sastra karaya could see a ghost standing behind Shehan Karunatilaka's shoulder. He said the spirit was a woman, someone Karunatilaka had known and who was now his guardian. Now, in his airy living room in Colombo, Karunatilaka admits he didn't sense anything himself, and that he was a little bit disappointed with the experience. … Continue reading
Sri Lankan Tamils around the world have built one of the world's largest online libraries
Seran Sivananthamoorthy is only 25 years old which is why his knowledge of the Jaffna Public Library is limited to memory and anecdote. The library with some 95,000 volumes including the only original copy of the Yalpana Vaipavamalai or the History of the Kingdom of Jaffna was set alight by a mob in 1981 as … Continue reading
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With white sarongs draped around their waists and white turbans on their heads, two bare-chested traditional Sabaragamuwa dancers perform on stage. In the background is a contemporary jazz trio improvising music that echoes and weaves through the ritual chant. This is a juxtaposition not often seen in Sri Lanka, making the Baliphonics group compelling enough … Continue reading


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An experimental program is described which was designed to train non-urban housewives for paid employment as paraprofessional peer counselors. A flow chart traces the origin of the project back to 1969, when the future project director recognized the mental health needs of a variety of non-urban housewives of all ages. The resulting peer counselor training program is described in detail, including funding and institutional support, rationale and objectives, staff and consultants, selection of trainees, and program design. The extensive evaluation information includes sections on the program's effects on trainees and on staff. Issues and questions raised by the project are listed and discussed, and a summary and future recommendations conclude the publication. (Author/BP)
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Author: Anne Henochowicz
Anne Henochowicz is a commissioning editor at the China Channel and the former translations editor at China Digital Times. Her work has appeared in ChinaFile, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Foreign Policy. She is an alumna of the Penn Kemble Democracy Forum Fellowship at the National Endowment for Democracy. Anne studied Inner Mongolian folk music at the University of Cambridge and The Ohio State University.
Feng Zhenghu: Taking Air China to Court
After he was denied re-entry to China eight times, Feng Zhenghu lived in Tokyo's Narita Airport for 92 days in 2009-2010. Now Feng is telling the story of his airport odyssey on his blog, and CDT is translating his account. This is part 35. Read previous installments here.
December 7, 2009Today is December 7, my 34th day camped at Japan's doorstep. At 10:00 a.m., Professor
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WARNER ROBINS, GA--(Marketwired - February 08, 2017) - The Air Force Material Command at Robins AFB in Georgia modified on February 8, a previously released solicitation for a service-disabled veteran-owned small business to fulfill a civil engineering multiple award construction contract (CEMACC).
The CEMACC is an Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract for design-build and design-bid-build construction projects, which are specific to WRAFB, and applicable to individual task orders. The contractor who receives the contract must be able to provide a broad range of maintenance, repair, alteration, and /or new construction work on various real property facilities.
The Air Force further explained in its revised solicitation that the contractor can expect to perform the following types of work: new construction of buildings and structures; alteration, restoration, and repair of buildings, structures, roads, airfields, grounds, roofs; specialty construction; utilities; miscellaneous services including remediation/hazardous waste removal (i.e., asbestos, lead paint, etc.; and design/build from concept to 100 percent design).
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New Potato Technologies, the creators of the Brio, call it a "smart coaster." That's a bit of a nebulous term, although there have been a few attempts at hacking beverage coasters using Arduino boards and such. Their interpretation seems to be an IoT smart coaster that offers a whole smorgasbord of dissonant features which they hope have the combined effect of convincing you to go to a bar or party carrying your coaster in your pocket. It has never been easier to be one of the cool kids.
At its most basic, Brio is a smart coaster with a unique design embellished by 24 built-in LEDs. Their function isn't purely cosmetic. You can use the accompanying Brio app (currently on iOS; coming soon to Android) to control the lighting patterns produced by the LED lights. This is supposed to help with identifying your drink if ever you find yourself in a situation where you leave it unsupervised and need help telling which ones is yours.
Pulsating LED lights are cool and all, but that's only the start. There's a lot more Brio does to try to earn the "smart coaster" tag. Not least among those is the whole social network built around the device. That's right–you don't just buy a Brio, you buy into a whole community of coaster-loving partygoers with whom you can exchange information on the local nightlife scene.
The social network is sort of a private FourSquare for Brio's own network of users. You can mark and rate your favorite spots in town using 'pins.' Those ratings and locations are visible to other users via the app. The social network could also be used to help make plans for the evening, either by connecting with other users with a 'Group Hoot' or looking up featured events and attractions happening locally.
The most important of Brio's features seems to be what is called Guard Mode, which comes into play when you have to leave your drink unsupervised. Once activated, Guard Mode watches your drink to see if any motion is detected. A phone notification is fired off immediately if the glass or mug is disturbed in any way. You can see how that's a useful feature to have handy if you're in a shady club or with shady company. The implementation is a bit weird, though, since Guard Mode requires you to place the Brio smart coaster on top of the glass in which your drink is.
Bucking prevalent trends, Brio hasn't turned to Kickstarter to raise funds. Instead, you can just buy one right now off the website for $40, and get your hands on the absolute cutting edge of coaster technology.
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WASHINGTON – Screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea infections using urine testing alone would have missed more than three-fourths of infections in a population of gay youth, a study has found.
"Urine screening alone is not a reliable proxy for all sites for gonorrhea and chlamydia infections in a youth men-who-have-sex-with-men population," reported Dr. Katie Plax at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS).
Instead, it appears that triple screening – with pharyngeal and rectal testing done along with genital screening through urine tests – can enhance the detection of chlamydia and gonorrhea, especially in this high-risk population.
Dr. Plax and her coinvestigators screened 135 young men who have sex with men (MSM), aged 14-24 years, during 189 visits to a drop-in youth center in St. Louis that provides health and social services. Each of the youth had triple screening with nucleic acid simplification testing of urine, rectum, and pharyngeal specimens.
Of all the positive test results over the 12-month study, only 17% were from urine specimens, whereas 82% were in rectal or throat specimens. (There were 29 positive chlamydia tests in 26 of the 135 men, and 72 positive gonorrhea tests in 51 of the men. Twelve of the young men were positive for both infections.)
Urine screening alone would have missed 85% of chlamydia infections and 72% of gonorrhea infections, their analysis shows, while throat screening alone would have missed 88% of chlamydia infections and 43% of gonorrhea infections. Rectal screening had the highest yield, with the estimated rates of missed infections being 15% and 41%, respectively.
"More attention should be focused on the role that extragenital infections play," said Dr. Plax, director of the Adolescent Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital and associate professor of pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis. "For HIV-uninfected patients, this is a public health emergency, because we know that an STD [sexually transmitted disease] diagnosis is both a marker for potentially high-risk activity and also a potential cofactor for HIV acquisition."
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Evolving to Security Decision Support: Data to Intelligence
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As we kicked off the Evolving to Security Decision Support series, the point we needed to make is the importance of enterprise visibility to the success of your security program. Given all the moving pieces in your environment, including the usage of various clouds (SaaS and IaaS), mobile devices, containers, and eventually IoT devices – it's increasingly hard to really know where your critical data is and how it's being used.
Though enterprise visibility is necessary, but not sufficient. You still have to figure out if/how you are being attacked and if/how data and/or apps are being misused. Ultimately no one gets any credit for knowing where you can be attacked. You get credit for stopping attacks and protecting critical data. Ultimately that's all that matters. The good news is that many organizations already do extensive security data collection (thanks compliance!), so you have a base to work with. It's really just a matter of turning all of that security data into actual intelligence that you can use for security decision support.
The History of Security Monitoring
Let's start by providing some historical perspective on how we got here, and why many organizations already do extensive security data collection. It all started in the early 2000s with deployment of the first SIEM, which was really deployed to make sense of the avalanche of alerts coming from firewalls and intrusion detection gear. You remember those days, right?
SIEM evolution was driven by the need to gather logs and generate reports to substantiate controls (thanks again compliance!). Thus the SIEM products focused on storing and gathering data than actually making sense of it. You could generate alerts on things you knew to look for, which typically meant you got pretty good at finding attacks you have already seen. But you were pretty limited in the ability to detect the attacks you haven't seen.
SIEM technology continues to evolve, but mostly to add scale and data sources to keep up with the number of devices and activity that need to be monitored. Yet, that doesn't really help address the issue that many organizations don't want more alerts, they want better alerts. In order to get those better alerts, two separate capabilities have come together in an interesting way:
Threat Intelligence: Since SIEM rules were based on looking for what you've seen before, you were limited in what you could look for – unless you've seen it. What if you could leverage attacks other companies have seen and then look for those attacks, so you could basically know what's coming? That's the underlying concept for external threat intelligence.
Security Analytics: The other capability isn't exactly new, it's using advanced math to look at the security data you've already collected to profile normal behaviors, and then look for stuff that isn't normal and may be malicious in nature. Call it anomaly detection, machine learning, or whatever – the concept is the same. Gather a bunch of security data, build mathematical profiles of activity patterns, then look for activity that isn't normal.
Let's go into both of these capabilities to gain a better understanding how they work and then we'll be able to show how powerful integrating the two can be to generating those better alerts.
Threat Intel Identifies What Could Happen
Culturally for most of the past 20 years, security folks were the kids that didn't play well in the sandbox. No one wanted to appear vulnerable, so data breaches and successful attacks were the dirty little secret of security. Sure it happened, but not to us. Yeah right. Still there would be very high profile issues (like SQL*Slammer) that couldn't be swept under the rug, but they hit everyone so it wasn't that big of a deal.
Yet over the past 5 years a shift has occurred within security circles, and it was borne out of necessity as most things are. Security practitioners realized that no one was perfect and that we collectively could improve our ability to defend ourselves if we would share information about adversary tactics and the specific indicators being used in those attacks. This is something that we dubbed "benefiting from the misfortune of others" a few years ago. Everyone benefits because one of us was attacked and we all learn about that attack and can look for it. Thus the modern threat intelligence market emerged.
In terms of the current state of threat intel, you typically see the following types of data shared within commercial services, industry groups/ISACs, and open source communities:
- Bad IP Addresses: IP addresses that behave badly, for instance participating in a botnet or acting as a spam relay, should probably be blocked at your egress filter, since you know that no good will come from communicating with that network. You can buy a black list of bad IP addresses, and this is probably the lowest hanging fruit in the threat intel world.
- Malware Indicators: Basically next generation attack signatures can be gathered and shared to look for the activity that is representative of typical attacks. You know these indicate an attack, so being able to look for them within your security monitors help keep your defenses current.
The key value of threat intel is to accelerate the human as we described in our Introduction to Threat Operations research. But what does that even mean? To illustrate a bit let's consider retrospective search. Basically this involves being notified of a new attack via a threat intel feed and using those indicators to mine your existing security data to see if you've seen this attack before you knew to look for it – ergo retrospective search. Of course, it would be better to detect the attack when it happens, but the ability to go back and search for new indicators in old security data clearly shortens the detection window.
Another use of threat intel is to refine your hunting process. This involves having the hunter learn about a specific adversary's tactics and then undertake a hunt for that adversary. It's not like the adversary is going to send out a memo detailing its primary TTPs, so threat intel is the way to figure out what they are likely to do. This makes the hunter much more efficient (and yes, accelerates the human) by focusing on the typical tactics used by likely adversaries.
Much of the threat intel available today is focused on data meant to be pumped into traditional controls, like SIEMs and egress filters. There is an emerging need for intel on the new areas of exposure like cloud, IoT, and mobility. As more attacks leverage these new attack vectors, more data becomes available, making us all smarter. But in the meantime, there is a clear gap in the data to address these emerging technologies.
Yet, effectively leveraging threat intel does not realize the full potential of Security Decision Support. Knowing what could happen is very helpful. But you still end up with a long list of stuff to triage and potentially remediate and little real context to prioritize those efforts. That's where analytics comes in.
Analytics Identifies What is Happening
The SIEM has historically been algorithmically challenged because its correlation engine was designed to alert on activity you knew to look for. It doesn't help much with stuff you haven't seen. Thus, as happens in markets like security, new approaches emerged to fill the gaps of the incumbent technologies. Security analytics is a case in point.
In concept, security analytics is pretty simple. Use advanced math to establish a baseline of activity in the morass of collected security data. Then look for situation that could indicate malicious activity or misuse of critical systems/data. In reality, it's anything but simple.
The general technology underlying security analytics tools is anomaly detection. You remember that, right? The security analytics vendors can come up with fancy terms, but at its core, this isn't new. In fact, we've been looking for anomalies in our security data for over a decade. Remember network-based anomaly detection (NBAD)? We certainly do (being security historians and all) and that was the first "security analytics" offering we can remember.
To be clear, NBAD worked and still does. The technology has been wrapped up into a variety of different offerings, so there aren't really stand-alone NBAD companies anymore, but the approach has evolved and morphed into what we now call security analytics. So what's different now? Firstly, you can analyze a lot more data, a lot more efficiently. As opposed to just looking at network flow records (like in the NBAD days), you can look at detailed network packet data, endpoint telemetry, logging activity from pretty much all of the devices and applications in use, and even potentially transaction data and then build the baseline to learn what is normal activity in your environment.
Most enterprise networks are pretty complicated (and getting more so), so building a baseline across a number of seemingly unrelated security data sources is challenging. So to simplify things a bit, you can start by looking at different use cases to chunk up the universe of activity into a manageable set that give you a reasonable place to start.
For example, you may want to find compromised devices. One way to do that is to look for devices that are doing strange things that could indicate misuse. Typically someone in your finance group shouldn't be doing recon on devices in the engineering area. Or vice-versa. That's not normal, and as such should probably be investigated. So paying attention to device behavior to detect malware is certainly a common use for security analytics.
Along with device behavior, you could also expand the purview of the analysis to look at broader insider threats by building a baseline for how specific employees use their devices (called user behavior analytics – UBA). Then when the employee does something funky, like connecting to the finance system from a tablet at home, you can flag that as something to look at.
You could extend that use case to a broader analysis by adding data from physical access systems (to see when the employee is in the office), as well as HR records (an employee is under investigation and has become a flight risk). Or you could look at the usage by employees of specific applications, especially the ones accessing critical (and proprietary) corporate data. From all this data you can profiling the employee's usage and transaction patterns. That gives you the baseline to look for activity that should be investigated.
Thus security analytics provides you not with a list of things you should look for (like threat intel or threat modeling), rather a list of things that are happening in your environment, providing more actionable alerts that most likely warrant investigation.
Yet security analytics on its own also doesn't rise to the standard of Security Decision Support. The analytics can identify things you need to look for, but you still don't have a sense of importance or prioritization relative to the other things the analytics platform is alerting on. So now we need to ask a few more questions of the system to really understand how to make better decisions.
Driving Security Decisions
Now that you have an understanding of which attacks are being used in the wild (via threat intel) and which systems/users/applications are potentially being misused, the next step is to use that context to drive action. But what action? How do you prioritize amongst all of the things (both internal and external) that should be looked at? Basically you need to balance the following to be able to effectively decide on what actions will be most impactful on your environment:
- Asset/Data Value: There are corporate systems and data that are pretty important to your company. When this kind of stuff is compromised, heads roll – probably yours. So obviously you are going to prioritize potential situations with these systems or users above most things. This is a subjective measure of value and requires a bunch of discussion with senior management to understand the value of the systems. But if you want to stay employed, you have to factor asset value into the mix since you don't have the resources or time to get everything done.
- Confidence: False positives hurt you by wasting time on stuff that turns out to be nothing. Reducing this wasted time is done by tracking the confidence you have in your data/intel sources and analytical techniques. Obviously if a specific intel source sends you crap, then you should maybe not jump when it alerts. Likewise if a bunch of alerts based on a user's mobile activity turn out to be much ado about nothing, then you should minimize that source over time. Yet, if you do find something via retrospective search that indicates an attack, then that should be pretty high priority since you know the attack is legit and you know it's happening in your environment.
- Internal Skills/Resources: The industry is making progress in automating some security activities, but there still seems to be an infinite amount of work to do. You also need to balance the reality of the skills at your disposal to prioritize. If you are weak at Tier 1 of your response because the front line staffers keep getting poached by consulting firms, then you may want to send alerts that may be urgent directly to Tier 2. Similarly, if you know the Tier 3 folks get into deep water on file-less attacks, then you may want to just quarantine those devices until your external forensics team can take a look.
This kind of process requires the ability to measure effectiveness of both threat intel and analytics over time. A gut feel isn't really what you should be using to determine which sources work best. So the sooner you start working on quantifying value, the better. Not just from being able to prioritize better, but also to save money. If you are spending money on sources or analytics platforms that don't provide value, maybe you should stop doing that.
By leveraging threat intel and more advanced security analytics, we've narrowed the aperture of all of the things you could look at, and helped you identify what you need to look at. We aren't going to claim that this makes your to-do list manageable, but every bit helps. By focusing on likely attacks (based on threat intel) on those devices that are acting abnormally while considering the value of the asset being attacked and the confidence you have in the data, it's far more likely you'll focus on the attacks that matter.
This is what Security Decision Support is all about. Enabling you to make the best use of your available resources by working smarter, leveraging technology and external resources to improve the effectiveness of your security team.
As we wrap up the series, our next piece will focus on how better, more contextual alerts can favorably impact security operations and what integrations are required to make that vision a reality.
– Mike Rothman
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Beyond Jihadi Brides: Female Migrants to ISIS
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Posted on: 25th June 2015
The rhetoric around radicalisation and extremism is dominated by talk of adolescent males. There is a perception that only young Western men are travelling to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS and that they should be the focus of anti-radicalisation efforts. When those who do not fit the profile are found, they are treated as a special case.
Three women from Bradford became the centre of media attention when it emerged that they had travelled to Syria to join ISIS, bringing the issue of female radicalisation to the fore. These women did not fit the 'standard profile' for Western jihadis migrating to join ISIS, suggesting that the standard policies and procedures for preventing radicalisation must be broadened. A fixation on Western male jihadis detracts from the required attention that must be paid to young females who also become radicalised. Efforts to engage and educate radicalised young people are almost entirely geared towards men.
A report released by the think tank ISD, Till Martyrdom Do Us Part, emphasises the pressing need to turn our attention to the growing trend of female radicalisation and migration to join ISIS. By using case studies of Western women who have joined ISIS, the report sheds light on the phenomenon and how it can be effectively countered. The report found that the widely held impression of Western females who join ISIS as 'jihadi brides' is fundamentally wrong. The female jihadi is not always confined to passivity, but rather, is being enthusiastically engaged by the upper echelons of the group and invited to take up an active role in forming the utopian Islamist society that ISIS aspires to create.
Push Factors
Questions of identity and the absence of a sense of belonging are portrayed as major push factors among many young Western women who choose to join ISIS. Many women feel a disconnect with the society around them, in which they have spent the majority, if not all, of their lives. The report notes that Muslim women in general, and specifically those who choose to wear the hijab or niqab, are particularly likely to have encountered some type of verbal or physical abuse.
The identity crisis faced by these young Western women, and a sense of 'otherness,' motivates their aspirations to find a society in which they can feel a sense of belonging. The report also observes that social groups within ISIS seem to be formed along lines of language commonality. Those from English-speaking backgrounds, such as Australia and the UK, tend to stick together, further demonstrating that it is a sense of belonging that is being sought. According to the report, female migrants to ISIS territory are commonly very expressive and emotional about the plight of Muslims around the world, believing that they are the victims of systematic and widespread persecution. This narrative is reinforced by the circulation of graphic portrayals of violence, often against women and children.
The complexities of the conflict are simplified with the use of binary language. While the conflict has drawn a number of participants, each with their own objectives and issues, the process of radicalisation involves instilling the idea that the good believers are heroes fighting against the evil unbelievers. Reducing the conflict to an 'us versus them' situation not only consolidates and broadens the scope of what the enemy is, but also helps dehumanise those they are fighting. The report found that a highly influential push factor was the feeling of empathy expressed by female recruits for the Muslim victims of violence.
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue also suggests that there is a growing sense of anger and frustration among some young Muslims that international entities are not perceived to be making any efforts to defend the Muslim community. This leads to and develops a sense of duty among Western youth that this conflict is something that they are obliged to engage in.
Pull Factors
Women have been called to join ISIS by the 'caliph', Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, himself, and have been told that they have an important and active role to play in society, a role that is based on carrying out their religious duty. For those women being drawn into ISIS controlled territory there is the understanding that rather than migrating to a war-torn conflict zone, they are in fact entering what they believe is a safe haven for those who truly wish to embrace and protect Islam. Due to strict gender segregation laws, women have been actively encouraged to come and take on societal roles in society such as teachers and nurses. These efforts not only convey the sense of a utopian Islamic society coming into fruition, but also give women the opportunity to take up active roles in the formation of this society rather than being consigned to passive roles.
The report mentions that the present trend in young Western women migrating to ISIS territory represents a significant shift from previous conflicts of a similar nature. Unlike previous conflicts in Somalia, Iraq, the Balkans, and Afghanistan, the conflict in Iraq and Syria has seen the unprecedented movement of women to the territory. This may be seen as a result of the direct invitation to women to come and join ISIS and to contribute towards the establishment of a utopian Islamic society. Although the ages vary for those profiled in the report, the majority of those females who have travelled to Syria and Iraq are in their late teens to early twenties. The youngest known female migrant is believed to have been just 13 years old.
The report analyses the types of imagery specifically targeted at attracting women that was being shared on social media, and discovered that the marriage between a female migrant and a jihadi is highly glorified. The draw of migrating to ISIS territory conveyed in propaganda appeals to the religious, social and personal aspirations held by these young Western women. By joining the vanguard they believe they are securing their place in paradise, playing an active role in shaping this utopian Islamic society, and are able to meet like-minded individuals.
Conclusions & Recommendations
- There is a considerable amount of diversity in the profiles of women radicalised by ISIS and migrating to its territory. Different backgrounds, ethnicities, languages are present, but all united in their support for ISIS and its objectives.
- The notion that all Western women who join ISIS are migrating with the intention of becoming 'jihadi brides' is inaccurate. The invitation from Baghdadi himself presents women with the opportunity to take part and contribute to the development of ISIS' state.
- However, this premise fails to reflect the realities many of the women who have travelled to live under ISIS have complained about, particularly about domestic isolation, living in a conflict zone, and severe living conditions. Women who join ISIS are expected to be the wives of jihadi fighters and the mothers of the next generation of jihadis.
- Western education programmes need to be broadened in order to include material on developing awareness of radicalisation amongst children and young adults. There must be a gender-conscious approach when developing counter-narratives, the measures must acknowledge the gender nuances and adequately address them in any solutions put forward.
- Deradicalisation programmes must have a greater capacity and a more robust infrastructure in order to adequately meet the needs for handling those returning from Iraq and Syria. Deradicalisation and prevention programmes must provide a greater number of female mentors in order to successfully connect with the subjects of these programmes.
- The important role of women in fighting radicalisation must also be understood and applied in measures to counter violent extremism. Counter-extremism programmes will greatly benefit from women becoming active and empowered agents effecting change, rather than being labelled with the age-old stereotype of being purely victims of extremism.
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Debraj Ray, Arthur Robson
NBER Working Paper No. 22602
In economics, alphabetical name order is the baseline norm for joint publications. A growing literature suggests, however, that alphabetical order confers uneven benefits on the first author. This paper introduces and studies certified random order, which involves randomization of names that is institutionally ratified by a commonly understood symbol. Certified random order maintains all the ethical niceties of alphabetical order, but in addition: (a) it distributes the psychological and perceptual weight given to first authorship evenly over the alphabet, (b) it allows either author to signal credit when contributions are extremely unequal, (c) it will be willingly adopted in a decentralized manner even in an environment where alphabetical order is dominant, (d) it is robust to deviations, (e) it dominates alphabetical order on the grounds of ex-ante efficiency, and (f) barring the addition of a simple symbol, it is no more complex than the old system, and brings perfect symmetry to joint authorship.
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ATHETOSIS (Gr. ἄθετος, without place), the medical term applied to certain slow, purposeless, deliberate movements of the hands and feet. The fingers are separately flexed and extended, abducted and adducted in an entirely irregular way. The hands as a whole are also moved, and the arms, toes and feet may be affected. The condition is usually due to some lesion of the brain which has caused hemiplegia, and is especially common in childhood. It is occasionally congenital (so called), and is then due to some injury of the brain during birth. It is more usually associated with hemiplegia, in which condition there is first of all complete voluntary immobility of the parts affected: but later, as there is a return of a certain amount of power over the limbs affected, the slow rhythmic movements of athetosis are first noticed. This never develops, however, where there is no recovery of voluntary power. Its distribution is thus nearly always hemiplegic, and it is often associated with more or less mental impairment. The movements may or may not continue during sleep. They cannot be arrested for more than a moment by will power, and are aggravated by voluntary movements. The prognosis is unsatisfactory, as the condition usually continues unchanged for years, though improvement occasionally occurs in slight cases, or even complete recovery.
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I've been doing 2days 1 day off for 5 days now, so a total for 4 days. A ton, I know. But, unlike almost every other exercise, I'm not getting that familiar muscle burn you get the day after a hard workout. Is that normal? Will this feeling come eventually? Am I doing something wrong?
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Pain or burning in PE is bad, if you ever feel pain stop right away it is not like working out at the gym
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Paradigm67 Listen to 1471988 he is giving you good information.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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A pretty pink cupcake shop opened in town – in the most unlikely of places. In the heart of South Philly, amongst the cheese steaks, canollis and soft pretzels, Ms Goody Cupcake has made its bright and shiny debut as the neighborhoods ONLY cupcakery. Good for my sweet tooth, bad for my trainer!
Gigi Andrew, who will be forever known as "Ms Goody," opened her shop at 1838 E. Passyunk Ave. in late 2011. Since then, she has already baked thousands of cupcakes and other sweet treats. Each day she offers 12 (!!) different flavors of cupcakes, ranging from traditional (red velvet, vanilla, chocolate), to flavorful (Elvis-inspired banana and bacon, honeycomb), to Philly-inspired (beer and soft pretzel), to the truly wild (chocolate covered potato chip, French toast with a side of bacon).
While the shop's main focus is cupcakes, Gigi also specializes in custom designer cakes. Gigi has made over 500 custom decorated cakes at the shop and out of her home. She specializes in themed-cakes, which have ranged from one layer small cakes, to over-the-top life-sized creations. In addition to cakes and cupcakes, Gigi is making seasonal pies, cake truffles and cookies. She enjoys putting a personal twist on classic treats, like her PB&J rice crispy treats.
Looking ahead, Gigi has big things planned for 2012. She will debut at the East Passyunk Avenue Flavors of the Avenue in April. She will also make a major expansion announcement in late March. First up, however, is a trip to Philly's new Hawaii with a line of cupcakes inspired and benefiting the 2012 Philadelphia Flower Show. Between Saturday, March 3 and Saturday March 10, Ms Goody will debut new flavors that pay homage to the islands by using traditional ingredients, such as coconuts, bananas, pineapples and macadamia nuts. A new flavor and theme will debut each day, including:
• Island Breeze – Banana and pineapple cake, lemon curd filling, lemon cream cheese frosting
• Shake Your Coconuts – Coconut cake, coconut buttercream, topped with toasted coconut
• Surfs Up – Blue Hawaiian cake, ocean blue buttercream, surfboard
• Volcano – Chocolate raspberry cake, chocolate buttercream, with raspberry lava
• Dream Vacation – Pineapple cake, vanilla butter cream, topped with coconut
• Piña Colada – Piña Colada cake soaked in rum, coconut cream cheese frosting, topped with cherry
Twenty-five cents from the sale of each Hawaii-inspired cupcake, including advance orders, will be donated to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Talk about sweet!
For a list of daily flavors, like Ms Goody Cupcake on Facebook or follow Ms Goody Cupcake on Twitter. Ms Goody also debuted a brand, spanking new website this week at www.msgoodycupcake.com.
This Saturday, get Hawaii-inspired tropical cupcakes AND her Saturday special! Every Saturday (until further notice), cupcakes are only 6/$10. I say ALOHA to that! I am also obsessed with the cake truffles, try 1, 2 or 10. They are inexpensive and a crowd pleaser at parties and meetings.
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Summerhill is the most visited thoroughbred breeding site in the world. That's official, according to the most recent Alexa Traffic Ranking, and we're as far ahead as Horse Chestnut was when he romped away with the J&B Met.
According to our ranking among all websites in the world, we see three times the traffic Darley does, 1.5 x's Coolmore's, 6 x's Shadwell Stud, much the same for Australia's Arrowfield, and 7.5 x's Swettenham. We also rank well ahead of any of the trainer websites in South Africa, and when it comes to the breeding sites, we're as far ahead as we are on the Breeders' log.
It's little wonder then, that a leading SEO organisation called this morning, not only to congratulate us, but to find out the intricacies of managing a thoroughbred site. Remarkably, just two days before, we received an enquiry from an aspirant graduate of the Darley Flying Start course, whose thesis revolves around website marketing, as to whether he could use ours as his study template. The recommendation came from his mentor, Dermot Cantillon. Mr. Cantillon, chairs Irish Thoroughbred Marketing, and is one of the most influential members of the Irish Thoroughbred community. Apart from his own highly successful breeding interests, he manages the affairs of the internationally acclaimed Smurfitt family. According to our enquirer, Dermot rated the Summerhill site as the best client reporting and marketing website in the world. Some praise from some man.
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Marriage can be a real killer.
One of the critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribute proclaimed that her work "draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction." Gone Girl's toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose create a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn.
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under the mounting pressure from the police and the media – as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents – the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter – but is he really a killer?
As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn't do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?
With her razor-sharp writing and trademark psychological insight, Gillian Flynn delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark, and ingeniously plotted thriller that confirms her status as one of the hottest writers around.
The Response
Let me start this off by saying that Flynn is obviously a very talented author. There is no way she could be otherwise with how strongly this book made me feel. She is able to craft characters and a story that demand you react to them. The book was well-narrated, and Flynn was able to give the main characters their own unique voices. I have no doubt that Flynn is extremely talented.
But holy frak.
This book has managed to do something that very, very few have ever done. It is now categorized in my brain along with only F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as being one of the books I have most loathed in my life. I hated this book so much that there was a point where I seriously considered physically hurling it across the room just to take out my rage towards it.
I should have known better than to pick this up in the first place – I borrowed it from my mother, only because of the buzz about the movie. She told me, when giving it to me, that the characters are all despicable. And I don't think that even begins to describe it. My goodness!
Here's the thing. The main characters are all professionals at manipulation. I don't know if the characters grow during the novel or if they just learn how to manipulate others better. I don't know if they learn anything from this experience, except maybe learning how to survive the other person. I don't understand any motivation from the characters other than saving their own self-centred skin and making themselves look like the innocent victim (when neither of them are). And because of this, I don't know how much of what is related in the novel is actually something that I can believe. The narrators aren't reliable at all.
Actually, is this maybe a look at someone who isn't mentally stable? Does Amy maybe have Narcissistic Personality Disorder? That would make the book slightly more understandable, and if I had considered that going into the novel, maybe I wouldn't have hated her quite as much.
I found the pacing of the novel to be rather slow – especially for the first part of the book. It could also be the fact that I was having such a hard time really liking any of the characters and so didn't want to spend any more time reading this book than I already had. In all honesty, by the time the pacing sped up, it may have just been that I finally wanted to see if either got their comeuppance… (and I'm completely unsatisfied by how it ended.)
Again, I want to be clear that I have no doubt that Flynn is a very talented author. This was extremely well put together, and there aren't any plotholes at all. The characters, while despicable, are three dimensional. This book just got under my skin more than any other book I've read in a very long time.
I don't know if I'll be reading any of Flynn's other novels – I may, if I know upfront that the characters are less despicable, because if Flynn can make me hate a character that much, than she could probably make me absolutely fall in love with one too.
The Bottom Line
Not my cup of tea. I won't be reading this again, and am rather glad to be finished it. Time to move on to something more upbeat and pleasant.